Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...

The platypus and echidna, often regarded as some of the most peculiar animals on Earth, may be hiding a far more complex ...

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of ...

Researchers have unearthed fossils of massive freshwater crayfish that once scuttled through the lakes of southern New ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.

The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...